Ya Gotta Get Your Mind Right!

From the movie, “Cool Hand Luke” you “gotta get your mind right”. When I quit smoking many of my friends said, “You’re going to put on a lot of weight now.” I listened to them. Without realizing it, I accepted that fate and put on a lot of weight. If you have ever read any of my articles, you know that I am a strong proponent of the Nike trademark phrase “Do it!” and I believe in mind over matter. I once heard Doc Sevrinsen say, when asked how he stayed thin all his life, “I never though about getting fat.”

I apparently agreed to get fat, so I had no choice. I thought about getting fat and I achieved it. I got fat. Once I became aware that I had created the fat, I made up my mind to change what I was thinking. It took a lot of concentration but eventually the weight began to melt off.

Will that work for you? Not likely! You probably are so used to having a weight problem that you won’t be able to clear it from your thinking. It will always be like an elephant in the room. For instance, do you ever visualize yourself in a petite? Do you see yourself shopping for clothes that are half the size you are wearing today? Do you have a picture in your mind of the person inside you that you want to let out? Can you make 15 minutes available for exercise? Every day? Can you change what you eat? Can you change what you drink?

If these things don’t matter, then I can promise you that you won’t be able to lose weight and keep it off. It just won’t work for you. Know that your thoughts become your reality, and as long as you see yourself at your current weight, your mind will direct your body to make it so. Look in your mirror. If you can find a slim person in there anywhere, you can let that visualization become who you truly are. If you can’t, you will always become what you see.

Many people have tried to lose weight unsuccessfully. Some couldn’t stick to their plan, some didn’t have a plan at all. To most, it was not the losing weight but the self-image they forgot to change. They still, after taking off pound after pound, thought of themselves as the mirror image that they looked at before the weight came off. If you see yourself as fat, all the nutrition and diet, all the exercise, all the metabolism work will not matter. You “gotta get your mind right”.

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